Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid

Analysis

Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid is a registered charity in United States, based in Grass Valley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid reported income of $226k and spending of $246k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $277k to $226k (-18%), an average of -4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Thrift Shop-Cancer Aid sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Medina Community Clinic Inc ($226k), Kats Ribbon of Hope Inc ($226k) and Century Plaza Housing Corporation of Topeka ($226k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 70% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $21k (8.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $24k. At year end it held assets of $659k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $659k. It reported 6 employees.